17 Feb — 19 Feb 2019,Prague, Czech Republic

MCE Central & Eastern Europe 2019 - Prague

MCE Central & Eastern Europe 2019 - Prague

17 Feb - 19 Feb 2019, Prague, Czech RepublicInterContinental Prague

The highly successful MICE business forum series, the MCE Central and Eastern Europe, is organised by Europe Congress for the 9th consecutive year. Building on Central and Eastern Europe’s MICE business potential, this unique forum brings together buyers from all over the world with high quality solution providers from the region. DMCs, PCOs, event management companies, convention bureaus, hotels, airlines from participating Central and Eastern European countries meet up with carefully selected, qualified and pre-screened buyers.

MCE Central and Eastern Europe is offering the advantage of bringing high potential business partners together in a very comfortable, well organized event venue. All business counterparts meet face-to-face in pre-organised, match-made meetings but also have the opportunity to spend time together in really getting to know eachother, as can only happen in this boutique format event. This boutique MICE B2B forum offers the perfect mix of pre-scheduled face-to-face meetings, educational sessions presented by industry opinion leaders, plenty of networking opportunities and social events. It will be your best investment - as many of our previous and returning participants say – into finding new business opportunities and partners

Agenda

ARRIVAL DAY

ARRIVAL DAY

10:00 – 18:00

MCE Central & Eastern Europe - Registration

10:00 – 18:00

MCE Central & Eastern Europe - Registration

12:00 – 17:00

Optional Site Inspections for Hosted Buyers

12:00 – 17:00

Optional Site Inspections for Hosted Buyers

14:00 – 16:30

Prague Old Town and Jewish Quarter Sightseeing

14:00 – 16:30

Prague Old Town and Jewish Quarter Sightseeing

17:30 – 19:00

Welcome reception and opening speeches

17:30 – 19:00

Welcome reception and opening speeches

19:00 – 23:00

Welcome networking dinner at The Lobkowicz palace

19:00 – 23:00

Welcome networking dinner at The Lobkowicz palace

FORUM DAY 1

FORUM DAY 1

08:00 – 08:30

Welcome coffee/tea

08:00 – 08:30

Welcome coffee/tea

08:30 – 09:30

Keynote – Insight into the CEE region as MICE destination

08:30 – 09:30

Keynote – Insight into the CEE region as MICE destination

09:30 – 11:05

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (6 slots)

09:30 – 11:05

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (6 slots)

11:05 – 11:30

Networking Coffee Break

11:05 – 11:30

Networking Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:40

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (8 slots)

11:30 – 13:40

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (8 slots)

13:40 – 14:45

Networking Lunch

13:40 – 14:45

Networking Lunch

14:45 – 15:30

The Meetology Keynote by Jonathan Bradshaw

14:45 – 15:30

The Meetology Keynote by Jonathan Bradshaw

15:30 – 17:05

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (6 slots)

15:30 – 17:05

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (6 slots)

19:00 – 23:00

Dinner Evening at The Empire Hall

19:00 – 23:00

Dinner Evening at The Empire Hall

FORUM DAY 2

FORUM DAY 2

08:30 – 08:45

Welcome coffee/tea

08:30 – 08:45

Welcome coffee/tea

08:45 – 09:30

Central & Eastern Europe MICE Suppliers Presentation & Tombola

08:45 – 09:30

Central & Eastern Europe MICE Suppliers Presentation & Tombola

09:30 – 11:20

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (7 slots)

09:30 – 11:20

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (7 slots)

11:20 – 11:45

Networking Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:45

Networking Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:55

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (8 slots)

11:45 – 13:55

Scheduled one-to-one business meetings (8 slots)

13:55 – 14:15

Forum closing session and farewells

13:55 – 14:15

Forum closing session and farewells

14:00 – 15:30

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Lunch

14:45 – 19:45

Optional Site Inspections for Hosted Buyers

14:45 – 19:45

Optional Site Inspections for Hosted Buyers

15:00 – 17:30

Prague Old Town and Jewish Quarter Sightseeing

15:00 – 17:30

Prague Old Town and Jewish Quarter Sightseeing

You will meet:

As a participating destination or supplier of MICE services from Central and Eastern Europe you will meet with a carefully selected, personally interviewed, screened and qualified group of buyers that have upcoming outbound business for your destination and are seeking new partnerships. Your most likely next business partners are among:

Up to 100 event planners/hosted buyers from:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland: 20%

United Kingdom & Ireland: 20%

France, Benelux & Scandinavia: 25%

Spain, Portugal & Italy: 10%

Russia & CIS: 5%

Middle East & Asia: 10%

North America: 10%

65% Agencies, 25% Corporate, 10% Associations

All buyers are personally interviewed, screened, selected, qualified and reference checked to have sincere numbers of outgoing MICE business for Central and Eastern Europe!

Your most likely next business partners in the pre-scheduled match-made meetings

Leading event planners and decision makers

Testimonials

The perfect balance of business meetings and social engagement: far more productive than the larger tradeshows.

Live Group

Perfect organized event with very carefully selected participants leads to promising business results!

Bohinj ECO Hotel

Time efficient, intimate and energetic forum to source out the best local and regional resources!

Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH

MEET RIGA

MCE Central & Eastern Europe was intense, professional and motivating MICE business energizer that already brought us many RFPs.

Importanne Hotels & Resort

Statistics

92

%

Percentage of Unique Buyers per Event

48

events

Average Number of Events per Year per Buyer

92

%

ROI Satisfaction

Forum Highlights

MICE

Our events are solely about MICE business

Varied Event Program

Business meetings, keynotes, networking & socialising

Target Audience

Invited buyers with business potential for participating suppliers

Effective Time Usage

Limited out of office time, high number of new business leads

Boutique & Quality

Selected decision makers in exclusive event venues

B2B Matchmaking

We create you your ideal schedule with next business partners

Key fact

MICE

Our events are solely about MICE business

Varied event program

Business meetings, keynotes, networking & socializing

One-stop-shop

Buyers selected on destination interest: Synergy!

Effective event time usage

Limited out of office time yet high number of new business leads

Quality

Invite only participants in top notch event venues

Exclusive & Boutique

Limited participant numbers to secure personal approach and result focus

Qualification

Europe Congress applies a strict and lengthy qualification process to guarantee a high quality of the event. Only senior positioned event planners with sufficient (upcoming) outbound MICE) business for Central & Eastern Europe are being invited. The process of the entire qualification of all event planners takes more than half a year. The Europe Congress recruitment team dedicates itself to this work intensive procedures to assure each participating hosted buyer to be worthwhile meeting for the participating destinations and suppliers.
The hosted buyers’ qualification process consists of the following procedures:

Detailed telephone Interview with event planners to uncover business potential

Pre-registration in case of the successful outcome of an interview

Invitation to event registration (based on provided business activity data)

Further qualification and reference checking based on registration details